Countries
China, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Turkish Language Association
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Merhaba
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nasılsın?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tünaydın
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
günaydın
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
lütfen
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
üzgünüm
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Hoşçakal
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Gagauz
Where They Speak
China
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
69
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million75.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.95 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
tibétain
turc
German Name
Tibetisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Turkish
Origin
c. 650
c. 1350
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2919
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tur
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tur
ISO 639 3
bod
tur
ISO 639 6
bod
tur
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data Available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic